High Line Blog

A Delicious First Season of High Line Food

December 05, 2011
Author: 
Erika Harvey
Categories: 
High Line Food
2011
Chelsea Market Passage The Chelsea Market Passage was home to High Line Food vendors all summer and fall. Photo by Iwan Baan.
 

Our first full season of High Line Food will soon come to a close. We pulled together some photos of our favorite moments from the year. Take a look, and tell us what you think. We hope you will share your thoughts with us to help make High Line Food even better next year.

Meet the Co-Founders and Get Your Book Signed

December 05, 2011
Author: 
Kate Lindquist
Categories: 
High Line
High Line Book
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Planning to give a copy of our new book, High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky, as a holiday gift?

Join us this week to get the book signed by the authors, Joshua David and Robert Hammond. The High Line Co-Founders will be at Charles Nolan on Thursday, December 8 and the Whitney Museum of American Art on Friday, December 9.

HIGH LINE BILLBOARD Q&A with the Curator

December 02, 2011
Author: 
Kate Lindquist
Categories: 
Public Art
High Line Art
Billboards
100000 Bill Photo by Friends of the High Line Courtesy John Baldessari and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
 

Today we unveiled The First $100,000 I Ever Made, a new work created by artist John Baldessari. The work features a $100,000 bill enlarged to cover the 25-by-75 foot billboard next to the High Line at West 18th Street. This is the first work presented in a newly launched series called HIGH LINE BILLBOARD.

We asked Cecilia Alemani, Curator and Director of High Line Art at Friends of the High Line, to answer some questions about the new work.

High Line at the Rail Yards Community Input Meeting

November 29, 2011
Author: 
Kate Lindquist
Categories: 
Design
Community Input
Rail Yards


It’s a familiar experience for those who have recently visited the High Line. Standing at the northernmost point of the park, you look through the metal construction fence and see the still undeveloped stretch of the historic freight rail structure. You ask yourself, “What is happening out there? Will this be open to the public?”

Here is your chance to find out.

Join us at the High Line at the Rail Yards Community Input Meeting on Tuesday, December 6 at 6:30 PM to get an update on the third and final section of the High Line.

High Line Holiday Gift Guide

November 23, 2011
Author: 
Erika Harvey
Categories: 
Web Shop
holiday
2011
Gift Guide

Visit the High Line Web Shop this holiday season to find great gifts for all the special people in your life. High Line merchandise is perfect for architecture and design geeks, green thumbs, New York City enthusiasts, and children alike. What’s more, every purchase in our Web Shop directly supports the maintenance and operations of the High Line!

Ice Skating Below the High Line

November 22, 2011
Author: 
Kate Lindquist
Categories: 
Neighborhood
snow
Meatpacking District
Ice SkatingThe Standard Ice Rink is now open below the High Line at West 13th Street. Photo by Chris Mosier
 

There is a new ice-skating venue below the High Line. The Standard Ice Rink is now open!

PHOTOS: Explosive Dance Performance on the High Line

November 21, 2011
Author: 
Erika Harvey
Categories: 
On the High Line
Public Programs
performance art
dance
Below The Standard, New York, dancers in boldly colored costumes do acrobatic kicks as part of Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism. Photo by Liz Ligon. Below The Standard, New York, dancers in boldly colored costumes do acrobatic kicks as part of Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism. Photo by Liz Ligon.
 
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On November 12 and 14, visitors gathered to watch dancers in brightly colored costumes jump, run, kick, and cartwheel along the High Line as part of Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism, a new dance-theater work by Tyler Ashley and the SARAHS.

We're Thankful

November 21, 2011
Author: 
Kate Lindquist
Categories: 
holiday
Fall on the High Line.Fall foliage near the Falcone Flyover, on the High Line at West 25th Street. Photo by Joan Garvin.
 

This week we celebrate Thanksgiving at the High Line. Thank you for supporting us do all of the things we do to keep the park thriving. We have much to be thankful for this year.

Chelsea Bike Lanes Become Even Greener

November 17, 2011
Author: 
Erika Harvey
Categories: 
Community
Horticulture
Senator Tom Duane, here with Chelsea Garden Club members in front of a volunteer's handiwork at 25th & Ninth Avenue, championed the pit gardens and got the green light to plant in the bike-lane tree pits. Senator Tom Duane, here with Chelsea Garden Club members in front of a volunteer's handiwork at 25th & Ninth Avenue, championed the pit gardens and got the green light to plant in the bike-lane tree pits.
 

We would like to give a shout out to our friends at the Chelsea Garden Club.

These hard-working volunteers have adopted the tree pits along 8th and 9th Avenues and transformed them into mini-gardens filled with beautiful flowers, grasses, and shrubs.

Construction Update: Whitney Museum and High Line Headquarters

November 09, 2011
Author: 
Kate Lindquist
Categories: 
Construction
Whitney
M&O
The southern terminus of the High Line overlooks the construction site for the new downtown location of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the High Line Headquarters. The southern terminus of the High Line overlooks the construction site for the new downtown location of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the High Line Headquarters.
 

Near the High Line’s southern terminus, crews are hard at work preparing to pour the foundations for the new downtown location of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the High Line Headquarters, which will provide critical support to the maintenance and operations of the High Line.

Follow us after the jump to watch a preview video of the museum, view photos of the construction, and learn more about the new High Line Headquarters.

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